IVIV Doc/Zoyd, VL

[Doug Millison]

Is the choice really that stark -  PoMo or morality - , or is there a  
middle position worth holding vis-a-vis Pynchon?  Worth discussing all  
the same, thanks alice.

alice wellintown:
"…The BOTH/AND reading slides into relativism and then, unless you are  
stupid, you can not read Pynchon as a satirist or a moralist or even  
as an author who takes a moral position. If everything, as Ivan  
teaches us in The Brother's Karamazov, is permitted, Pynchon has  
written novels that don't say a damn thing. Is that the claim here?  
They are postmodern  provocative, sometimes beautiful, art objects?  
Now, one can take this position, if one also gives up the moral and  
political statements of the texts.…"